coleophoran

Adjective

coleophoran (comparative more coleophoran, superlative most coleophoran)

1. Of or related to moths of the genus Coleophora, whose larvae feed on seeds.
   • Outgroup analysis of other genera in Coleophoridae would indicate that the ancestral coleophoran case was a mined seed capsule (or floret) strengthened by silk and later enlarged by anal additions of silk, and the ancestral feeding condition was seed-mining of herbaceous plant families (Figures 6...(Can we date this quote?), Sibyl Bucheli, Jean-François Landry, John Wenzel, Larval case architecture and implications of host-plant associations for North American Coleophora (Lepidoptera...
   • Observed causes of damage to the plants, most likely contributing to their mortality were, deer grazing, deer and human trampling with severe damage inflicted by a Coleophoran larvae that devoured the embryo of developing nutlets during the fruiting stage. Snails are also persistent herbivores....(Can we date this quote?), The Ohio Journal of Science